8
¶ And God spake unto Noah, and to his
sons with him, saying, 9 And I, behold,
I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with
you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from
all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you;
neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither
shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
12 ¶
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me
and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it
shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a
cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is
between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall
no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16
And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may
remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all
flesh that is upon the earth. 17 And God
said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between
me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
God made a covenant with Noah, his sons, and all of
the creatures with Noah, that He would never destroy the earth with a great
flood again. All of those waters under the surface of the earth that I
referenced earlier will stay under the earth and although devastating floods
are possible none like this one that reduced life on earth to a precious few
will be permitted again.
The rainbow we see in the sky is an ever-present
reminder of God’s covenant that the world will never be destroyed by a great flood.
A rainbow is an optical phenomenon that happens when the sun shines through
water droplets in the atmosphere. Its existence is verification that the
atmosphere of the pre-Flood earth was very different from that of the
post-Flood earth. The fact that it is possible after and not before the Flood
is evidence of the vast difference between the conditions. Just as Mount Saint
Helens’ eruption showed us that geological events that were thought took
hundreds of millions of years to occur took place in the span of hours and that
formations like the Grand Canyon and The Scablands also could have been formed
quickly are evidences of the Great Flood of Noah, so the rainbow, God’s sign of
a covenant not to cause the Flood again, is evidence of the great change
between old and new earth.
We see evidence of the Great Flood all around us. We
run our civilization on petroleum products that resulted from a tremendous
biomass being crushed under great pressure. Fossil fuels are just that. We find
fossils of creatures that have modern representatives and creatures that are
extinct as fossils. A fossil doesn’t occur when something just falls out on the
ground, is eaten, rots, decays, and disappears. A fossil occurs when a creature
dies in a sudden cataclysm and is preserved in rock by great pressure. Scientists
will use terminology like a fossil is formed when a plant or animal dies in a
watery environment and is covered with mud or silt or they will just say they
were buried quickly. But, this is explained very readily by the Flood of Noah
given to us in the Bible, a primary source with God relaying what happened to
Moses, who wrote it down.
Evidence of the flood includes fossils of trees that
extend through many geological strata or levels so that they are called
polystrate fossils as in Yellowstone Park with fossil trees formed by rapid
sedimentation and violent volcanic action. What modern scientists say are
geological strata laid down over long ages were laid down rather quickly during
the Flood, an example of which we saw in Mount Saint Helens’ eruption. Another
evidence is that fossils often are found in strata that is reversed or lacking
in continuity. In other words, the supposedly older strata are over the
younger.
But, if you trusted the Bible you wouldn’t need this
proof. Still, it is out there as the most reasonable explanation of the
conditions of the earth in which we live, if you believe God. The evidence, the
facts, don’t change but the interpretation of the evidence does as the
conclusions of modern theoretical science are based on ideology and the way
they view the world, not incontrovertible truth.
Think of the logic of it for a moment. Modern scientific
theories fall under the uncertainty that, “To be accepted as a paradigm, a
theory must seem better than its competitors, but it need not, and in fact
never does, explain all the facts with which it can be confronted.”(33) For example, “Copernicus’ more elaborate
proposal [a sun centered solar system] was neither simpler nor more accurate
than Ptolemy’s [a fixed earth as the center].” (34) The truth is simply that,
“We now know that the difference between a heliocentric theory and a geocentric
theory is one of relative motion only, and that such a difference has no
physical significance.” (35)
And yet, Christians have, for the most part, bought
into modern scientific theory and denied the Bible’s literal statements where
it is convenient to do so. When a scientist makes a declaration that appears to
attack some point of the Bible, like the great catastrophe of the Flood,
consider what they are saying, why, and how. The theoretical scientist of today
is not a prophet getting a revelation from God. He is a modern priest only receiving
a revelation from his own reasoning ability which God points out in His word is
damaged and unresponsive to the truth of God.
(33)
(34) Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of
Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962),
18, 76.
(35) Fred Hoyle, Astronomy and Cosmology: A Modern Course (San Francisco: W.H.
Freeman & Co., 1975), 87.
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